The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-04-06
THINGS TERRITORIAL

A Knight Templar Commandery has
been organized at Billings
Conard Bros, of Marysville, have as
signed to Kleinschmidt Bros.
II. Milard has erected coking ovens at
the Belt creek coal mines in Choteau
county.
A stage line has been established be-
tween Billings and Rock Creek coal
mines.
Delegate Toole thinks W. g. Maybury,
of Detroit, will be appointed chiefjustice
of Montana.
Charley Green reports that there are
between 5000 and 1000 dead cattle on
the ranges near Arrow creek, northern
Montana.
Winston Bros, the we'll known con
tractors, have received the contract for
work on 500 miles of the proposed ex-
tension of the Manitoba road.
J.H. Greene, of Benton turned eleven
Polled Angus bulls out upon the range,
last fall and all he now has to show for
them is the hide of one.
Agents of the Indians IN Montana have
been notified by Commissioner Atkins
that hereafter the Indians on one reserv.
alton will not be permitted to visit those
of another reservation; that the practice
must be broken up.
Several kilograms were received last
week from Gov. Hauser, who is in New
York, conveying the intelligence that
arrangements for building the Bitter
Root railroad has been completed.
Larson, Keefe & Ki'kendall, obtained
the contract for the construction of the
Helena-Butte division of the Montana
Central. Their contract includes every.
thing on the line-grading, tunnels, rock
work, bridges and trestels-except the
ack.laying the contract for which will
not be let for some time.
Br. Holloway, Territorial Veterinary
Surgeon discovered traces of glanders on
the west side and had three infected
horses killed-one at Butte, one at Silver
Bow and one nearDeer Lodge. The doctor
says that Beeaverhead is the only county
in the territory in which he has not
noticed traces of the disease.
The big tunnel on the Montana Cen.
trail line to Butte will pass through the
mountain about one and one third miles
the other side of Wlckes-consequen
about q miles from Helena. The top of
the mountain is $50 fee: above the level
of the tunnal.
A couple of months ago the Husband
man had an editorial predicting better
market and better prices for broke horses
with the advent of spring. We are glad
to note that evidences of the verification
of this prediction is becoming more appa-
rent every -Husbandman.
Charles Anceny returned last week to
his home near Creamery in Gallatin, ,coun
ty, from trip to the Crow reservation
where he has been making settlement
with agent Williamson for the the graz
ing of cattle upon the reservation during
the winter. Mr.. Anceny informed our
reporter that he settled for the firm of
Cruise 4 Anceny and various others.
numbering in all 5000 head. at the rate
of fifty cents per head. He says that
altogether there were about 1000 head
wintered upon the reservation. He
estimates the losses in that vicinity to be
about 25 per cent on natives and about
40 pes cent on pilgrim cattle.-Husband-
man.
The dead body of an unknown man
was found in Helena March 30th in a
root house on the west side. From
papers found upon his person it is
thought he had been dead since some
time last December. His throat was cut
from ear to ear and a large, sharp, blood
stained pocket-knife was tightly held in
| one hand. the dead man appeared to
have been above middle age and to have
gone blind in one eye, but the features
were otherwise unacceptable. Twenty
five dollars in coin were found in his
| pockets, which indicated that the man
was not murdered for the purpose of rob-
berry. 1t is also claimed thatlthe nature
of the wound indicates that it could not
have been suicide.
The first step in the test cose in which
the drummers propose to test the legali-
ty of the new license law under recent
decision of of the United States Supreme
Court, was taken in Helena. J. E.
Rhodes, the representative of Pittsburg
iron company, refused to pay the license
required by law and was arrested there
fore, upon complaint of the County At
tornev,